However, Europe has pride of place at the bottom with one airline which, though less often late, holds the world’s record for longest delays in October.

If you want plenty of Terminal shopping quality time, choose Austrian. They were only late 11.67% of the time, but passengers got a whole 87.10 minutes, on average, when it did happen.

American Airlines was the worst on-time performer among the majors in North America, only 74.34% of its flights were on time, and there was an average delay of 58.31 minutes. Though that was spread over 103,344 flights in the world’s busiest passenger market.

By comparison, Delta, which has the most scheduled flights of any airline in the world (156,865) maintained a respectable on-time performance of 85.21%, but average delays stretched to 54.41 minutes.

Spirit Airlines‘ ultra-low fares also come with extra charges to your clock. It was the worst performing low-cost carrier in the US in October, with only 86.75% of its 8,753 scheduled flights on-time and average delays of 64.39 minutes.

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